Tritium supply and use: a key issue for the development of nuclear fusion energy
@article{Pearson2018TritiumSA, title={Tritium supply and use: a key issue for the development of nuclear fusion energy}, author={Richard J. Pearson and Armando B. Antoniazzi and William James Nuttall}, journal={Fusion Engineering and Design}, year={2018} }
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GLOBAL SUPPLY OF TRITIUM FOR FUSION R & D FROM HEAVY WATER REACTORS
- Environmental Science
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Heavy water (D2O) reactors are presently the only commercial source of tritium. CANDU reactor tritium production in Ontario, Canada, will supply ITER’s tritium demand but, following the delay in the…
Nuclear Fusion Power Plants
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Insights into fuel start‐up and self‐sufficiency for fusion energy: The case of CFETR
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Physics and technology considerations for the deuterium–tritium fuel cycle and conditions for tritium fuel self sufficiency
- Environmental Science
- 2020
The tritium aspects of the DT fuel cycle embody some of the most challenging feasibility and attractiveness issues in the development of fusion systems. The review and analyses in this paper provide…
Cernavoda tritium removal facility: A key tritium supplier for future fusion facilities
- Environmental ScienceFusion Engineering and Design
- 2019
Development of an Advanced-Fuel Nuclear Fusion Experiment
- PhysicsFusion Science and Technology
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Abstract As a first step to exploring the possibilities of D-3He plasmas, a deuterium-tritium burning plasma experiment at high field and plasma densities, which can be much closer to the required…
Po-210 production in the European DEMO fusion reactor
- Environmental ScienceNuclear Fusion
- 2019
The radionuclide inventory plays a central role in the safety of nuclear installations both during operation and their decommissioning. In nuclear fusion reactors using Pb-Li tritium breeding…
Summary of Tritium Source Term Study in 10 MW High Temperature Gas-Cooled Test Reactor
- Physics
- 2020
Abstract Tritium (3H) has been increasingly researched when assessing the environmental impact of nuclear reactors and other nuclear facilities because it is widely present in nuclear systems and can…
The production and molecular occurrence of radiotoxic Po-210 in nuclear fusion and fission reactors
- Environmental Science
- 2019
In order to counter the climate change, there is a need for a radical revolution in the global energy supply. One of the most realistic scenarios is a substantial shift towards renewable energy…
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